The dictionary of lost words : a novel
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Published
New York: Ballantine, 2022.
Format
Book
Edition
2022 Ballantine Books Trade Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 388 pages : map ; 21 cm
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Location | Call Number | Note | Status | Due Date |
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Main Library - Adult | Fiction Williams, P | Checked Out | May 7, 2024 | |
Oliver La Farge - Adult | Fiction Williams, P | Hardcover | Checked Out | May 1, 2024 |
Southside - Adult | Fiction Williams, P | Hardcover | Checked Out | May 7, 2024 |
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Published
New York: Ballantine, 2022.
Edition
2022 Ballantine Books Trade Paperback edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Includes book club guide.
General Note
Reese's Book Club -- cover.
General Note
"Originally published in Australia by Affirm Press in 2020"--Title page verso.
Description
"Before the lost word, there was another. It arrived at the Scriptorium in a second-hand envelope, the old address crossed out and Dr Murray, Sunnyside, Oxford, written in its place. It was Da's job to open the post and mine to sit on his lap, like a queen on her throne, and help him ease each word out of its folded cradle. He'd tell me what pile to put it on and sometimes he'd pause, cover my hand with his, and guide my finger up and down and around the letters, sounding them into my ear. He'd say the word, and I would echo it, then he'd tell me what it meant"--,Provided by publisher.
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Fiction.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Language and culture -- Fiction.
Lexicographers -- Fiction.
New English dictionary on historical principles -- Fiction.
Novels.
Oxford (England) -- Fiction.
Oxford English dictionary -- Fiction.
Women -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Fiction.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Language and culture -- Fiction.
Lexicographers -- Fiction.
New English dictionary on historical principles -- Fiction.
Novels.
Oxford (England) -- Fiction.
Oxford English dictionary -- Fiction.
Women -- Fiction.
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